Trace-carrier



(Model V. STEPP. 'Trace Carrier.

Patented May 10,1881.

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'NA PETERS, Photo-Lithographer. Washington, 0. 0:

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

VOLNEY STEPP, OF MANHATTAN, KANSAS.

TRACE-CARRI ER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 241,441, dated May 10, 1881.

Application filed March 25, 188]. (Model) To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, VOLNEY STEPP, of Manhattan, in the county of Riley and State of Kansas, have invented a new and Improved Trace-Carrier, of which the following is a speciin any position of the harness, and one with which the cockeyes may be engaged and disengaged Without trouble.

In the accompanying drawings. Figure l is a top view of my invention, and Figs. 2 and 3 5 are, respectively, side and front elevations of the same.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

The device is preferably of castiron or simi- 2o lar metahand the bottom plate, a, thereof is convex in form to tit the back of the horse, and is provided with the slots 1) I) for the hip-strap of the harness, and with the front slot, 0, for the back-strap, and with the cross-piece d for the crupper. Rising from the bottom plate are e undercut horns e 0, over which the cockeyesffare placed. Above the horns e e are the upwardly-curved keepers g g, which reach from the rear of the bottom plate over and beyond the horns, and are supported by the bridge h, which rises from the center of the forward part of the bottom plate. a

The under sides of the keepersg g are formed with the projections it, which are in such position relative to the horns e e that the cock eyes cannot be disengaged from the horns ex cept by proper manipulation.

To engage and disengage the cockeyes with the horns the end of the trace must be brought to nearly a horizontal position and the cock eye turned so as to pass edgewise between the horns and the projections 11 i. This being a position which the traces never assume of their own accord, it follows that the traces hooked upon the carrier are always secure against casual unhooking of the coekeyes.

Having thus fully described my invention, I

claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent The tracecarrier herein shown and described, consisting of the bottom plate, u, having the undercut horns c e, in combination with the keepers g g, having the projections 'i 71, substantially as and for the purposes set forth.

VOLNEY STEPP. Witnesses:

O. 0. EVANS, J. M. VINCENT. 

